Description: Tourmaline var. Schorl Pitcapel Quarry, Aberdeen, Grampian Region, Scotland, UK. 12cm tall x 7cm x 6cm Large Schorl crystals with a bit of pegmatite matrix (quartz, pink feldspar and white mica). The specimen has a sawn base. I got this from a guy at the Bakewell Show this year (october), who aquired it by exchange in 2000 - not long after it was 'mined', apparently.

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